How to change Gradle download location

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I am starting to learn gradle. However when I am building Spring with Gradle; it downloads the dependency jars to

C:\Users\UserName\.gradle

Is there any way I can specify Gradle to download the dependency jars to a specific location? Just like I can specify repository location in Maven.

System information: Windows 7 64bit Gradle version 1.0

score 111 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 18 '12 at 07:49

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You can set the GRADLE_USER_HOME environment variable, gradle.user.home system property, or --gradle-user-home command line parameter.

answered Aug 18 '12 at 07:49

Peter Niederwieser

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Using GRADLE_USER_HOME is not work for me(gradle still load wrapper in to the old folder).Please help me how to run --gradle-user-home command line parameter. – UmAnusorn Apr 05 '14 at 03:44
this might be helpful for people new to gradle. I also need to re run ./gradlew installDist in my project folder to re-download everything to the new GRADLE_USER_HOME – emily Jul 10 '15 at 20:39
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Setting the gradle.user.home property in the gradle.properties does not change the location. – Eric Jul 25 '16 at 19:39
This doesn't change the location but the GRADLE_HOME variable finds mention in all newly created/imported projects. So whatever folder you mention inside that variable will have the 'scum in the name of gradle' downloaded there. So it won't clog up your C anymore. What a shithole of a open source IDE this is! – user30478 Aug 31 '18 at 18:45

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered May 01 '18 at 17:26

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On android studio just go to File > Settings > Build Execution, Deployment > Gradle > Service directory path choose directory what you want.

answered May 01 '18 at 17:26

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misleading answer – user30478 Aug 31 '18 at 17:44
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Work for me !!!! - on Android Studio 191.6010548-windows - Thank you very much – Alex Abreu Mulet Mar 05 '20 at 16:19
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Worked for me after restarting the PC. – Nandan Wewhare Jan 18 '22 at 09:30
I tried this, it works only existing project. New project uses the default path. I found setting system environment variable `GRADLE_USER_HOME` as custom location, it did work, and setting panel shows the location as default. – iroiroys Mar 16 '22 at 08:09
This worked for me. What about visual code? – Lasitha Lakmal Aug 03 '23 at 07:15

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 04 '15 at 09:15

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You can also try to go in eclipse at window ->preferences -> gradle and change the directory there

answered Mar 04 '15 at 09:15

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 15 '17 at 18:46

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You can add following line to your gradle.properties:

systemProp.gradle.user.home=/tmp/changed-gradle

answered Oct 15 '17 at 18:46

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score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 18 '22 at 09:29

Steps:

Set the GRADLE_USER_HOME environment variable to new path
On android studio just go to File > Settings > Build Execution, Deployment > Gradle > Service directory path choose directory what you want.
Restart the PC (important step, no one mentioned this surprisingly)

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 25 '16 at 09:16

If you are using gradle plugin in your eclipse and trying to import the gradle project than your gradle home is set to

C:\Users\UserName.gradle

In some cases your import build model will not work because of your user directory permission issue.

In this case you can copy your .gradle directory from below path

C:\Users\UserName\**.gradle**

paste into some directory where you have all permission and import the project.

In my case i moved my .gradle dir to z drive and than imported the project than made build model and it worked.

a Learner · Answer 7 · 2022-06-08T12:55:30.227

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If you want to run gradle tasks through IDE then: You can also set in intelliJ editor>File>settings:

Then restart the IDE.

If you want to run gradle tasks through command line then you have to set GRADLE_USER_HOME in environment system variables. Then restart the pc as others also said.

edited Jun 08 '22 at 12:55

answered Jun 07 '22 at 17:48

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